What is Soul Sovereignty or Soul LIberty?

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR SOUL?

 Recently President Biden has been criticized for attending Mass and receiving Communion despite his support of abortion rights. Some Catholic  priests in Rhode Island have echoed these warnings  about Biden's Catholic practice.  They have refused to see that such  negative judgements  are a violation of the idea of the separation of Church and State which is fundamental to American political and personal life.

 I would like to  remind Biden's critics of the concept of  SOUL SOVEREIGNTY

The basic concept of individual soul liberty, is that in matters of religion, each person has the liberty to choose what conscience or soul dictates is right and is responsible to no one but God for the decision that is made.

A person may then choose to be a Baptist, a Catholic, a member of another Christian denomination, an adherent to another world religion, or to choose no religious belief system, and the church, the government, family and friends may not make the decision or compel the person to choose otherwise. In addition, a person may change one's mind over time.

According to Francis Wayland, president of Brown University (1827–1855), Roger Williams established the commonwealth of Rhode Island on the fundamental principle of--

perfect freedom in religious concerns; or, as he so well designated it, "SOUL LIBERTY".

 "No man of his age had so clear conceptions of the rights of conscience as the founder of Rhode Island, and no one had ever carried them so honestly to their legitimate conclusions. I go further: no one has yet been able either to take from or add to the principles of religious liberty which he so simply and powerfully set forth. They stand as imperishable monuments to his fame, like the obelisks of Luxor, on which the chiseling of every figure is now just as sharply defined as when, three thousand years since, they were left by the hand of their designer"

If you believe in the Last Judgement, you  do not expect a priest or Bishop to be with you. Orthodox Christians  believe that they  may have their  Guardian Angel with them.

Medieval Christians  believed that only their good Deeds would accompany them after death.

None of us  knows for sure.

I cast my vote with soul sovereignty and the  hope and pray that the choices of my Soul have been  the right ones and will  standup to Divine Scrutiny.